[Python-Dev] Continuing 2.x (original) (raw)

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Thu Oct 28 19:20:05 CEST 2010

On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:07:50 -0000, lutz at rmi.net wrote:

I hope 3.X use expands; in fact, I've bet the future of at least one book on it. And even 1/4 of new users seems a large enough subset to care about too. But one can't help but wonder if most of the development community is focused on some imaginary future user base, at the expense of the much larger current user base. Then again, there's still plenty of Fortran77 code out there, so...

Given the existing rate of Python3 adoption (which by the signs we see in the tracker is increasing), you can hardly call the user base imaginary. Further, Python development (and development in general!) is always focused on a "future user base" in the sense you are using it, not the "current user base". That's pretty much part of the definition of development :)

But the reality is that almost all those Python2 users are future Python3 users, so they are the future user base. And like Georg said, as far as we can see Python3 uptake is pretty much right on the schedule that was predicted when it was first released.

-- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com

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